Friday, September 26, 2008

The Oshawa Generals are pleased to announce that the No. 2 jersey made famous in Oshawa by legendary hockey great Bobby Orr will be officially retired and raised to the rafters at the General Motors Centre on Thursday, November 27.

The Generals will face the Peterborough Petes that night and the club is privileged to also announce that Orr and his family, friends and former teammates will be on hand for special pre-game ceremonies which will begin just after 7 p.m.

3 Comments:

Too bad I'm not in the area...it'd be great to see any tribute to Orr given out. And you're right, James, the timing is weird. I can't think of any reason for them to not have retired the number as soon as Orr retired form the NHL.

To call Orr "one of the most famous players in hockey history" is certainly damning him with faint praise. He remains, of course, the greatest player of all time. Just the other day, in the National Post, Pat Quinn said Orr was the best he ever saw. Too bad you youngsters never had the opportunity to witness the magic.

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A sportswriter at The Globe and Mail, James covers the NHL and the game of hockey. He is a member of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association, a radio and TV analyst with TSN and was the NHL network manager at SB Nation from 2008 to 2010. A graduate of Thompson Rivers and Ryerson universities, James grew up in Kamloops, B.C. — one of Canada's great hockey cities — and was a season ticket holder in the Blazers' glory years.

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